Permanent hair waving apparatus



March 9, 1937. w. E. OTTENBACHER PERMANENT HAIR WAVING APPARATUS Filed June 13, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet l arrs/vakafli 3.2M 4 1 WW March 1937. w. E. O'YI'TENBACHER 2,073,317

PERMANENT HAIR WAVING APPARATUS Filed June 13, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 c 'j/wcse/wlfo t/ W5 Orrsivanc H57.

aZ/ W Patented Mar. 9 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PERMANENT HAIR WAVING APPARATUS Willy E. Ottenbacher, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to Paul Meyerhoff, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application June 13,

1 Claim.

This invention appertains to a novel apparatus for permanently waving the hair.

As is well known, considerable discomfort is caused the patron during the obtaining of a permanent wave. This deters some persons from having their hair permanently waved, which results in loss of patronage by the beauty parlors.

This discomfort is caused primarily by the fact that all of the hair is curled simultaneously, which results in heaters being placed over the entire head. Thus, the patron is subjected to a great weight from the curlers and heaters, and the entire area of the head is subjected to heat. Further, all of the hair is under some tension. Likewise, when all of the heaters and curlers are simultaneously used, the formation of individual, characteristic curls is hampered, and the results of the wavecannot be determined until all of the heaters are taken off.

It is, therefore, one of the salient objects of my invention to provide a novel machine for permanently wavingthe hair in which discomfort to the patron is reduced to a minimum, and in which the desired curls and waves can be readily made, and in which danger of the operator being burned is reduced or eliminated.

Another salient object of my invention is to provide a permanent hair-waving machine mounted upon a Wall bracket and adjustable in a vertical and horizontal plane over the head of the patron, whereby the entire machine will be out of the way of the operator, thereby permitting the expeditious forming of the waves with a minimum amount of effort on the part of the operator.

A further object of my invention is to provide means whereby the operator can tell at all times whether or not current is being supplied to the heaters.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a permanent hair-waving machine embodying four waving elements only, with a novel means for manipulating these elements whereby the hair can be successfully waved in a relatively short time without the necessity of utilizing a great number of heaters and curlers, thereby effectively reducing the weight and heat on the head of the patron and effectively reducing the cost and upkeep of the machine.

A still further object of my invention is to provide an improved hair-waving machine of the above character, which will be durable and eflicient in use, one that will be simple and easy to manufacture, and one which can be placed upon the market at a reasonable cost.

1934, Serial No. 730,398

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and formation of parts, as will be hereinafter more specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

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Figure 4 is a vertical section through the machine, taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1,1ooking in the direction of the arrows.

machine, taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, look- I Figure '5 is a detail view illustrating a method letter A generally indicates my improved hairwaving apparatus, which comprises a wall casing,

0r bracket, Hi. This wall casing, or bracket, lfl includes a back, or face, plate I I which is adapted to be rigidly secured to a wall or other surface adjacent to the patrons chair".

Secured to the back plate H are side walls I2, I

and detachably connected with said side walls is a removable front plate l3. The upper and lower ends of the casing can be closed by top and bottom walls l4 and I5.

The top wall I 4 can be provided with a bearing opening, which, if desired, can be provided with an anti-friction raceway.

Secured to the back wall I l below the bearing opening are bearing brackets I1, and the bearing opening and the bearing brackets rotatably receive and support a standard l8 which is preferably of hollow construction.

A bearing stop collar H] can be carried by the standard for limiting the downward movement of the standard in the bearing bracket, or casing.

Connected with the hollow standard I8 is a right angularly extending, horizontally disposed arm 20, which is also preferably of a hollow construction. An elbow coupling 2i can be utilized for connecting the arm with the standard.

The outer end of the arm 20 has rigidly connected therewith a hollow head 22 which can be of a circular construction. This hollow head 22 supports the various heater units 23, as will be later described.

The electric feed wires for the heater units extend up through the casing, or bracket, l0, through the hollow standard and arm 20, into the hollow head 22. These wires are then divided so that branches 25 thereof can be extended to the various heating elements.

In accordance with my invention, I utilize only four of the heating elements which, in the present instance, have been shown to be of the Croquignole type. The branch wires 25 for the heaters 23 extend down from the casing through suitable outlets 26 which may be arranged in pairs.

In order to relieve the weight of the heaters from the head of the patron and to facilitate the manipulation of the heaters, I provide counterbalancing means therefor.

Thus, the lower wall of the adjustable head 22 carries four pulley wheels 21 over which are trained pull cords 28. The lower ends of the pull cords 28 are connected to the branch wires 25 adjacent to the heaters 23. These pull cords are then threaded through openings 29 formed in the front wall [3 of the casing and over pulley wheels 38 mounted in said casing.

Inside the casing are mounted weights 3| which are attached to the inner ends of the pull cords, and these weights tend to counter-balance the weight of the heaters 23, and thus hold the heaters in an adjusted, or raised, position.

On top of the swinging head 22, I can mount an indicating lamp 32 which is placed in circuit with the main feed wires, and thus this lamp will accurately indicate whether or not current is being fed to the heaters 23.

I also employ a time switch 33 which can be mounted on the back plate H, and this time switch is interposed in the length of the feed wires. Obviously, by setting this time switch for the desired interval of time, the circuit to the heaters can be cut off automatically after the lapse of the selected time period.

Obviously, from the construction so far, it can be seen that the head 22 can be readily swung about the wall bracket, or casing, so that the head can be conveniently disposed over the patron.

The machine is preferably used in the following manner I first wind five strands of hair on curlers 35, and these curlers are arranged in a set, as is clearly shown in Figure 5. After the desired compound is placed on the wound strands, the four heaters 23 are applied to four of the wound strands, leaving one wound strand on the inside of the head.

While the heaters are in operation, I wind a new set of four strands of hair on the curlers, as shown in Figure 5. This is permitted without danger to the operator in view of the fact that a single wound strand is arranged between the set of heaters 23 and the new set of strands being wound.

After the desired lapse of time, the four heaters are removed from the wound strands, and these heaters are then applied to the remaining strand of the first set of wound strands and to all of the second set of wound strands except one.

While the heaters are in operation, a third set of four strands is wound on the curlers and the first set of heated strands is allowed to cool. When the desired length of time has passed for heating the second set of wound strands, the first set of steamed strands can be unwound. The heaters can then be removed from the second set and applied to the third set.

This process is continued until the entire head of hair has been waved.

No loss of time is encountered by the use of the above method, in that while one set of the wound strands is being heated, other sets can be wound and unwound.

While I have shown only the Croquignole appliances, I may also employ spiral curlers and heaters at the same time to give a permanent wave consisting of both Croquignole and spiral curls.

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit or the scope of the invention, but what I claim as new is:

A machine for permanently waving hair comprising'a stationary wall casing including abackplate adapted to be rigidly connected to a support, a vertically disposed standard rotatably mounted in the casing supported by the backplate, a rightangularly extending arm on the upper end of the standard extending outwardly of and above the casing, a head carried by the arm, depending heaters suspended from the head, counter-balancing means for curlers including pull cords, pulley wheels over which the cords are trained carried respectively by the head and backplate, the outer ends of said cords being connected to the heaters with the inner ends thereof disposed in the casing, and counter-balancing weights connected to the inner ends of said cords and disposed wholly within said casing.

WILLY E. OT'I'ENBACHER. 

